Desmodium GANGETICUM (L.) DC.
| Synonym : | Aeschynomene maculata (L.) Poir. Desmodium cavaleriei H.Lev. Hedysarum collinum Roxb. Meibomia gangetica (L.) Kuntze Pleurolobus gangeticus J.ST.-Hil. |
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| Bangla Name : | Salpani, Chalani.,Turki madan (Tanchangya), Bormajal (Chakma). |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Fabeceae |
| Disease : | Bowel, typhoid, fever, piles, asthma, bronchitis, dysentery, diarrhoea, biliousness and cough. |
| Description : | A suberect undershrub, 0.6-1.2 m high. Leaves 1-foliolate, 9-12.5 cm long, ovate, oblong, acute or slightly acuminate. Flowers violet or white, in a copious ascending terminal and axillary racemes, 15-30 cm long. Pods subfalcate, 12-20 mm. long, deeply indented. |
| Distribution : | More or less throughout the country in fallow lands. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Aerial parts contain five tryptamine derivatives, Nb-Me-tetrahydroharman and 6-OMe-2-Me- ?-carbolinium cation. Root contains alkaloids, N, N-di-methyl-tryptamine and its N-oxide, N-methyltyramine, hypaphorine, candicine, hordenine and a ?-phenylethylamine |
| Uses : | Roots are alterative, tonic, anthelmintic, aphrodisiac and astringent to the bowels, used in typhoid, fever, piles, asthma, bronchitis, dysentery, diarrhoea, biliousness and cough, also useful in chronic affections of the chest and lungs. Root extract is |
| Habit : | Under shrub |